It’s been 50 years since the Balibo 5 were killed in Timor-Leste. No one’s been held accountable
- Written by Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
On October 16, 1975, five journalists were killed in the remote Timorese town of Balibo. To this day, no one has been charged with their deaths.
Known as the “Balibo Five”, the men were reporting on the covert Indonesian invasion of Timor-Leste. They were Greg Shackleton and Tony Stewart from Australia, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters fr...
